What They're Saying - The Bulldogs Media Thread - Part 4
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Dogs_R_Us
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BMac said when he came in that it would take five years before we would be contenders. Five years later…
Macca was a really bad coach. Negative footy and his coaching style a relic from a time gone by. Bad product and alienated players. The rebuild had to happen but it was not managed well.
The only real payoff we got from the Macca era were some good top draft picks (courtesy of losing a lot of games) that contributed very quickly (Stringer, Macrae, Bont), and we were very lucky in that we turned the Griff saga into a premiership hero.
Most of the work of that ‘five year plan’ was done by Dalrymple (eg Dahl, JJ) and some very timely father son gifts - Libba, Hunter, Cordy. Mitch of course should have contributed too if not for unity.
You can argue Maccas contested ball mantra was key but he was so bad a coach I’m personally not willing to give benefit of the doubt on that one. That last game of 2014 still sits in my mind lol.
I think Bevo has done his dash here at this point, but that hire was (obviously) incredibly astute given the preceding few years. He was backed by some strong assistants (oh to have those days) and way more tuned in to managing modern players.
If we had hired Leon Cameron or someone else, and we didn’t get that success, I think the Macca era would be viewed upon even more negatively. Particularly in such a scenario we turn our captain into the Tom Boyd contract without a premiership to show for it.
The only real payoff we got from the Macca era were some good top draft picks (courtesy of losing a lot of games) that contributed very quickly (Stringer, Macrae, Bont), and we were very lucky in that we turned the Griff saga into a premiership hero.
Most of the work of that ‘five year plan’ was done by Dalrymple (eg Dahl, JJ) and some very timely father son gifts - Libba, Hunter, Cordy. Mitch of course should have contributed too if not for unity.
You can argue Maccas contested ball mantra was key but he was so bad a coach I’m personally not willing to give benefit of the doubt on that one. That last game of 2014 still sits in my mind lol.
I think Bevo has done his dash here at this point, but that hire was (obviously) incredibly astute given the preceding few years. He was backed by some strong assistants (oh to have those days) and way more tuned in to managing modern players.
If we had hired Leon Cameron or someone else, and we didn’t get that success, I think the Macca era would be viewed upon even more negatively. Particularly in such a scenario we turn our captain into the Tom Boyd contract without a premiership to show for it.
Found myself chatting to a relative of his once and their take was there were plenty of other considerations not necessarily to do with our club at the time. The $50k story was circulated in the press but I doubt it’s the full story.
Dogs_R_Us
Space Traveller
It starts off postulating that Sam Power is in line to replace Chris Grant as football director.
There were some serious Kool Aid drinkers on here too.
I was willing to give McCartney a chance but from his first press conference I found his mixed metaphors and lack a precision concerning.
We were also already a great contested ball side in Rocket’s last few seasons yet people thought it was something new McCartney brought in.
Heard plenty from a player of that era about his man management and I shudder to think what could have happened if he’d been given two more years.
